[MPlayer-users] unicode subtitles
Georgi Georgiev
chutz at chubaka.homeip.net
Mon May 6 23:20:01 CEST 2002
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:57:53PM +0200, Artur Zaprzala wrote:
> The subtitle encoding issue seems a bit confusing, so I'll try to
> summarize it here.
>
> There are 2 approaches:
>
> 1. (preferred) You can generate Unicode subtitles with:
> subfont --unicode <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> subfont --unicode <path to custom encoding file> ...
> (this custom encoding file could list all iso-8859-* characters to
> create single font file for common encodings)
>
> and then run mplayer this way (-subcp and -utf8 expect Unicode font!):
> mplayer -subcp <any encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> mplayer -utf8 ...
>
> 2. (current) Generate subtitles for some specific encoding with:
> subfont <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> subfont <path to custom signle-byte or EUC encoding file> ...
>
> and then run mplayer without any encoding options for signle-byte
> encodings, or with -unicode option for EUC (and the like) encodings
> (which is only partially implemented in mplayer).
This was quite useful. Too bad it was not documented anywhere. Does anyone intend to put this in the docs?
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Chutz <chutz at chubaka.homeip.net>
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